Submitted 1 week ago by Oneser@lemm.ee to australia@aussie.zone
I’m all for inclusion of all people in our society. No one should be prejudiced for who they are.
BUT! Today I have to draw the line! Listening to the Play School alphabet song with my kid and it goes “A, B, C, D…X, Y, zed or zee”. Since when is this blatant destruction of our national identity accepted?
I’ll be picketing outside the ABC’s head office from tomorrow and following that the education office until this travesty can be corrected! Who’s with me?!
That’s enough internet for me for today. Sick fuck. At least put a NSFL warning next time.
It’s fine. Outside of visiting the United States I never hear anyone say zee. Even the American guys at work say zed.
We explained to our 4 year old, when she was 2, why she might hear zee on tv. She gets it and goes “it’s zed!” when she hears those shows. This is a nothing problem.
Exactly what we did. Demonised the filth, before the infection could spread.
A picket on the sidewalk is a great idea.
Zee, candy, cookies. All that American language creeping in shits me.
And yet we also see “football” being used more and more often to refer to soccer. The one time Australian culture and American culture should be in sync, some of us decided to copy the bloody poms.
I’m not sure if I understand which version you’d prefer- Do you want football to refer to the game where players use their hands to move an egg shaped object, or do you think football should refer to the game where players use their feet to move a ball shaped object?
We’re not America.
Here we say football to refer to the game where players use their feet to move an egg shaped object.
Tell me you have no understanding of the history of football sports without…
Also that you don’t know what the word “ball” means.
As long as they don’t call it footy its fine. Football is a broad term for a lot of codes.
⚽ 🇺🇸 SOCCER 🇦🇺 ⚽
The Wiggles alphabet song says this too. Although that I get since they export to the states now. It might even introduce American kids to the Zed.
Playschool is unforgivable. That’s our national kids show and should be Australian.
We can have a little pogrom against usaians as a treat.
usaians
Cringe.
Just say Americans mate, we all know you’re not referring to the inhabitants of North America or South America.
Nah, it’s funny ribbing them over their egotistical exceptionalism. you know they almost named their country freedonia?
Imagine meeting a German who refers to themselves as a Eurasian, cringe shit that is.
Mexicans are americans.
Colombians are americans.
Brazilians are americans.
Unitedstates-ians are americans.
It’s funny because spanish doesn’t have this problem. They call the people from the US estadounidenses which basically is unitedstates-ian.
by not using the countries name
“America” is not their country’s name either (“USA” is actually closer, now that you mention it)
*USians
Your version has too many vowels.
A noble cause
Who the fuck says C to Z?
It rhymes better with zee. Seeth.
Why stop there? Time to campaign for fee, hee, jee, kee, etc.
L, M, N and O get a free pass because they’re really just a prefix to P, not letters in their own right.
Lets go back to the old way of pronouncing Q also. It’s now pronounced like “coo”.
I always knew it as zee growing up. It worked in the rhyme.
“W, X, Y and Zee, now I know my A B Cs, next time won’t you sing with me” (that last line is probably a separate argument on its own 😂).
Then Dragon Ball Z hit Australian TV and it was done after that.
I cringe if I hear someone use a hard Z
Wait until you hear what they did to the U.S. alphabet.
LMNOP is gone. They fucking killed it.
What?! Noooooooooo!
Close, but not quite. It’s actually “L M N O P”, but that’s okay keep trying!! ;)
Huh?
Basically the song got changed in elementary school from,
“ABCDEFG HIJKLMNOP QRS TUV WX Y and Z(ee)”
to
“ABCEFG HIJK L M N OPQ RSTUV WXY and Z”
Basically they slowed it down
We coulda nipped this in the bud if we had joined together and formed AmerAustralia, a unified country. I tried to promote it. We’d each have each other’s backs when the other was sleeping. But noooo. And now Zed is dead. smh. I’m so sad for all that could have been.
The Austra-Zealand Union is what we should be looking at. Sure, the accent will take a hit, but we will be unstoppable in sports.
Right behind you my dude.
Don’t call him dude, buddy.
You’re wrong Play School!
Idk which it’s meant to be and I’m too afraid to ask
As a NZr, I couldnt care less. English is a juggernaut truck - it goes on regardless.
That’s really fucking stupid. It’s not about “diversity”, they just want to make it look like they are doing stuff.
maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Zeds dead baby, Zeds dead.
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 1 week ago
No /s, it is, no one says Gen Zed, or Jay Zed, XY Zee is just next in line, it’s all Zee’s and it makes sense why
At this point nobody is learning ‘English’, people are learning American because they watch American Movies, TV Shows, listen to American Music, eat American Food, play American Video Games, we watch literally millions of American Youtube and Tiktok Videos every day, we’re following American Influencers and Celebrities, with American Social Media Australians are following American Politics more closely than Australian Politics and frequently confusing the two, in addition we’re all addicted to the American Apps installed on American Operating Systems (all of them, Windows and MacOS and Android and IOS) on the American Smart Phones/Laptops/Desktops
The top most visited websites in Australia:
www.similarweb.com/top-websites/australia/
The consequence of this is that we lose our culture, but as some French statesman said: why bother when everyone is enjoying everything?
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eureka@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Odd choice of example, I hear it often.
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Well tbf what you’re losing is the UK’s culture. Finding a balance of other stuff that works for you instead of clinging to tradition is how you build a culture.
teft@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’ve heard people say Jay Zed. I’ve also heard Zed Zed Top.
Language is weird.
makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Well, Trump did get elected. Do you’re probably correct.